{"id":102754,"date":"2025-08-28T07:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102754\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T07:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:43:07","slug":"oilers-connor-mcdavid-named-top-rated-center-in-ea-sports-nhl-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102754\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers\u2019 Connor McDavid named top rated center in EA Sports NHL 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">The final positional top 10 list for the player ratings in EA Sports\u2019 NHL 26 is out, with <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/oilersnation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> center Connor McDavid being named the top center in the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">This is the eighth straight game that McDavid has been in sole position of the top center of the game, having done so since NHL 19, and it\u2019s the ninth straight being in the top altogether, as he was tied with <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/pittsburgh-penguins\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>\u2018 captain Sidney Crosby in NHL 18. It\u2019s also the second straight season that McDavid has a 97 overall rating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">This comes after a slightly more human season from Connor McDavid by his lofty standards, as he had 26 goals and 74 assists for 100 points, albeit with 67 games played while dealing with injuries. However, health was not an issue come playoff time, as he had seven goals and 26 assists for 33 points in 22 playoff games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">McDavid\u2019s 97 overall also means that he\u2019s the top-rated player in the game. However, after the<a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/colorado-avalanche\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Colorado Avalanche<\/a>\u2018s Nathan MacKinnon was the sole player in second with a 96 overall rating in NHL 25, several players have caught up to him, including the Oilers\u2019 Leon Draisaitl and the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/tampa-bay-lightning\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a>\u2018s Nikita Kucherov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">After McDavid, MacKinnon and Draisaitl, <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/florida-panthers\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Panthers<\/a> captain Aleksander Barkov sits in fourth place at 95 overall after back-to-back Stanley Cup victories. Crosby, the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/vegas-golden-knights\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>\u2018 Jack Eichel and the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/theleafsnation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>\u2018 Auston Matthews are tied for fifth at 94 overall, the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/new-jersey-devils\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey Devils<\/a>\u2018 Jack Hughes is eighth at 93, and the Lightning\u2019s Brayden Point is ninth at 92 overall. The <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/winnipeg-jets\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a>\u2018 Mark Scheifele is the final center named in the top 10 at 91 overall, but there may also be other centers with the same rating not in the top 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">EA Sports player ratings help determine the quality of each player in the league, which in turn effects both their skillset during on-ice gameplay as well as how well they simulate during modes like Season, Franchise and Be a Pro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">NHL 26\u00a0will be released on September 12th, 2025 on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final positional top 10 list for the player ratings in EA Sports\u2019 NHL 26 is out, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-102754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}